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Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:08 am
by Mushroomstamp
I assigned hotkey="MACRO" to some of my Knight's buffs last night to see if it would work and it did. I figure to do the rest tonight, but wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason that I shouldn't. Is there a reason to not do it this way? If not, why not assign ALL skills this way?
Re: Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:53 pm
by Alkaiser
HA! Well...
Like Mushroomstamp, I changed all my skills to MACRO and everything seems to be working fine. This makes things much easier.
If there's a downside, I haven't found it yet.
Re: Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:26 pm
by rock5
The way I understand it is "macro" only works for skills that are listed in skills_local.xml. Not all of them are I think.
So go ahead and change them all to "macro" and, if any don't work, check skills_local.xml and add the skill if not there.
Re: Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:10 am
by Starrider
is there no special key needed anymore, only change all to >hotkey="MACRO"< ?
Re: Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:45 am
by IronWolf
could some1 please elaborate?
i've seem to misundestand, what for and how you use the "hotkey=macro"
Re: Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:43 am
by Mushroomstamp
Starrider - apparently not.
IronWolf - In your profile... instead of;
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<skill name="KNIGHT_DISARMAMENT" modifier="" hotkey="VK_3" priority="70" />
<skill name="WARRIOR_SLASH" modifier="" hotkey="VK_4" priority="85" />
<skill name="KNIGHT_HOLY_STRIKE" modifier="" hotkey="VK_5" priority="60" />
... you can do;
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<skill name="KNIGHT_DISARMAMENT" modifier="" hotkey="MACRO" priority="70" />
<skill name="WARRIOR_SLASH" modifier="" hotkey="MACRO" priority="85" />
<skill name="KNIGHT_HOLY_STRIKE" modifier="" hotkey="MACRO" priority="60" />
Re: Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:23 am
by Giram
So if we do this the macro way, then we don't need to place the skills to skillbar?
Re: Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:35 am
by Alkaiser
Giram wrote:So if we do this the macro way, then we don't need to place the skills to skillbar?
This appears to be the case.
Re: Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:44 am
by Administrator
Giram wrote:So if we do this the macro way, then we don't need to place the skills to skillbar?
Correct, but you will need to hotkey the macro that the bot uses.
Re: Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 12:54 am
by rock5
It just occurred to me. There is one reason why you might want to use the key bindings instead of "macro". To avoid using the macro.
Typically, when using the macro for other things, it's slower and less reliable. So maybe using the key bindings would be faster and more reliable?
I probably need someone else to confirm this.
Re: Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:13 pm
by Alkaiser
Looks like the following needs to be added to skills_local.xml
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<MAGE_ELEMENTAL_CATALYST en="Elemental Catalysis" de="Elemental Catalysis" />
I don't know the German name for it.